Nikki Johnson

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We Buy Gold

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Location: New York, New York

Nationality: USA

Biography: Mississippi-born, New York based photographer follows her subjects throughout their environments. She captures their lives and learns their stories, even when her portraits are of strangers whom she may never meet again. Although she does not... read on

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We Buy Gold, Harlem, #1

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New's Year's Eve, 2013/ 2014

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Scarface Climax , Bar, Bronx

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Harlem Vanitas, #1

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Clubbed

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All Seeing Eye, Queens, NY

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Saints and Sinners, Nightclub, #1

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Big John, Smoke #3

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Andrew, Birthday, Lower East Side

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Street Sleeper, Harlem

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Joey, Chinatown, NYC

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Joey, Chinatown 2

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Masked Man, Midtown, NYC

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Jason, Hotel, Columbus Circle

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Personal Property, 123rd St., Harlem, NYC

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John's Shelf Vanitas, Bronx, NYC #2

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We Buy Gold and Diamonds, Bronx

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Grand Central Station Dancers, NYC

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John, Smoking, Full scale, Bronx, NYC

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Saints and Sinners Nightclub, NYC

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Benjamin, Newark, NJ

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125th St. Station

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Crossing, Harlem, NYC

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Night and Fog, Central Park, NYC

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Oasis Club, West Point, Mississippi

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Twilight Tricolor, NYC

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We Buy Gold

Credits: nikki johnson

Updated: 01/12/14

Archived as: Confrontation, Documentary, Environmental, Erotic, Hope, Loss, Love, Personal, Photography

A collection of exotic portraits and still-life images that embody tireless modern life + death at their most full and fragile. "We Buy Gold" is a series of urban collisions, coded objects, and social explosions.

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By Nikki Johnson / Bronx ,NYC — Big John, as he is affectionately known, as well as by the stage name "Jean Valjean", was a seminal..

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